Economic Primacy

In her work, Rudelius investigates the customs, rules, language and body language of people who are members of a specific community. This could be women or boys talking about sex or men who belong to a particular ethnic group. In 'Economic Primacy', it is men from the world of business that she is filming. They are in their cages (the offices in which they appear to be working) and the viewer is watching them through the bars, as it were. In a double-screen setup, we continually see one or two rooms, and in these rooms one businessman is, for instance, silently pacing up and down, while another is talking and gesticulating. But it is in fact always the same room; Rudelius built it herself as a kind of blueprint of an office. We see a succession of different me… Read more...